I find it so exciting when cultural traditions overlap. It makes me curious about how it all begins and why?
Above all, why eggs?
Egg painting is done for Easter, which is coming up really soon.
Persians also paint eggs as part of their table set up, “Haft Seen” for their new year “Eyd Norouz”.
I gathered my family yesterday to do this tradition and we actually decided to overlap cultural techniques to paint the eggs. Why not? We used old Ukrainian egg painting techniques which involves melting wax, drawing with the wax on the eggs, submerging the eggs in diluted ink with water and vinegar mixes, and wiping the wax by melting.
Here's what we came up with.
A ton of fun I might add.
